What You Should Look For In a Real Estate Theme
What makes a good real estate WordPress theme? Most would say design and I agree to a point. But to me the true test of any WordPress theme is its backend ease of use, support and extensibility. This post is geared towards WordPress but the guide can be applied to any template whether it be Drupal, Joomla, or any other CMS.
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WordPress Real Estate Listings Syndicator Plugin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Now brokers, agents, landlords, management companies will have the ability to syndicate real estate listings to aggregators such as Zillow, Trulia, HotPads, Trovit, and others from your WordPress website.
For a long time I have been on the search for a real estate plugin for WordPress that could feed aggregators such as Zillow, Trulia, RentHop, Postlets, and others so I could syndicate my listings without using a third-party service or manually adding every listings to each site.
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What Agent's Don't Want to Hear..
The real estate business is full of highs, lows, sometimes funny, occasionally inspirational, and of course, is loaded with characters from all walks of life abapentin medicine. Our trade is based on information and customer service, so answering the same questions over and over or listening to clients
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Yelp & NYC Real Estate - Filtered Vs Unfiltered
If you’re a real estate agent in NYC (or any other business anywhere else apparently) you’ve heard the rumors about Yelp!: they’ll filter good reviews and let bad reviews go public about you or your company. Of course that’s unless you decide to advertise with them, and then they can make all those bad reviews go away. I’ve heard many agents/brokers complain about their reviews, both filtered and unfiltered. This is a look into what Yelp! does and doesn’t do and how businesses are affected by Yelp!’s rating practices.
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Zillow To Phase Out Rental Pro/RentJuice for Brokers
Zillow announced today that they will be phasing out operations of it's standalone product Zillow Rental Pro also known as RentJuice. They will now focus on supporting landlords and property managers.
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How the Most Popular NYC Search Engine for Real Estate is Riddled with Open and Fake Listings
Streeteasy is the most reliable form of lead generation for brokers and agents and supposedly the most accurate information for buyers and renters. The website only advertises exclusives listings which (Until recently) you can keep up as long as you wanted to.
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NYC Real Estate Rental Apps
These days it takes more than just posting your listing on your company website and waiting for clients to call you (Duh). Gone are also the days when you could just wait till your MX feeds all the listing aggregators out there. Now you have to be mobile ready because waiting for feeds means you’re losing time and money. Thankfully there are some rental apps available now that can put you ahead of the pack. Some are free and some are not and though none of them are perfect they will boost lead generation.
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Brokerages & Agents Stats
NYC is full of agents with the concentration of activity in Manhattan & Brooklyn. I wanted to know where they mostly are in relation to the city itself, the report while as inclusive as possible (See About the Stats at the bottom of the report) I've only listed the top 5 in each category, (See categories below) Combing through 180+ brokerages the data
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249 Central Park West Revisited
Not so long ago a client asked me if Leonardo DiCaprio was living on the corner of 85th and Central Park West, when I said it was pretty unlikely since there wasn’t a constant frenzy of pre-teens screaming or paparazzi snapping photos in front of the building. Still my client (or as he said, his girlfriend wanted to know) that Leo might be living in what is now known as the Central Park West castle. Undaunted by my opinion or facts he said that he couldn’t wait to see him walking around the neighborhood, undoubtedly grabbing a knish at Artie’s deli or scoring a slice at Pizza Pete’s. So my quest began to find out who purchased the 7900 SqFt behemoth.
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NYC Real Estate Brokerage Directory
How many brokerages are in NYC? Plenty! Below is a list of active brokerages serving mainly Manhattan but also the outer boroughs recommended you read.
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NYC Brokerages and Search Maps
23 maps of NYC defined by real estate brokerages. Part of an upcoming post on searching for apartments.
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Disrupting the NYC Rental Market
There was a good article on the basics of disrupting an industry, it comes from a book here. So much has been made of the Uber’s/Lyft’s of the right now. But disruption is not new, it’s just a new buzzword for innovation or transformation. When Steve Jobs brought down record companies nobody called it disruption, he transformed the music industry from it’s entrenched ways and dragged it to the 21st century. Of course you can say he disrupted that and other industries and it would probably fit his style more. The word itself is more iconic now because it brings fear to the old way of doing business, it’s a more in your face of way of saying we are going to find a cheaper and streamlined method of doing what you do only better and it most cases use technology.
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Why Every Agent Should Be Using Rapportive
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside…
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REBNY Proposed Advertising Guidelines
Come This Spring, REBNY will decide on an important matter concerning the websites for groups and teams of brokerages. Please read below to learn more about these changes.
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